Re: i387 Floating Point Unit (FPU) testing

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Sun Nov 05 2006 - 18:36:24 EST



> The kernel contains some i387 FPU emulation code.
> Is there any user land software to test the FPU emulation code?
> I would like to be able to prove the correctness of the FPU emulation code in
> the Linux kernel, and also port the test program to other platforms that
> utilize FPU emulation. For example, DOS emulators like DOSBOX.

If the kernel already emulates it, you don't really need emulation in
userspace, no?

-`J'
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